Hanley Post Office, Tontine Street, Hanley
Hanley's main Post Office stood in Tontine Street. The grade II listed building was built in 1906 on open ground that once housed Batty's Circus. The three storey building, designed by John Rutherford, ...
Hanley Deep Pit Colliery
The winding gear of No.1 shaft of Deep Pit Colliery in Hanley. This photograph was taken from Town Road with one of the conical spoil tips just visible behind the winding gear.
Hanley Deep pit was ...
H & E Smith, Britannia Works, Hanley
H & E Smith is a specialist tile manufacturer with a factory on Old Town Road in Hanley. Founded in 1926 as Smith & Warrilow, the company became H & E Smith in 1948. They specialised in the manufacture ...
Fegg Hayes Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke-on-Trent
Fegg Hayes Primitive Methodist Chapel stood at the corner of East Terrace and Fegg Hayes Road. Also known as the Lear Memorial Chapel, the building dates from 1882 although later extended. The red brick ...
Fegg Hayes Methodist Church, Stoke-on-Trent
Fegg Hayes Methodist Church stood on the corner of Fegg Hayes Road (formerly North Parade) and Oxford Road. it was opened in 1874 and originally known as the North Parade Wesleyan Chapel.
The church ...
Dogcroft Road, Chell Heath, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken from close to the junction of Dogcroft Road and Chell Heath Road. The camera is looking north eastwards along Dogcroft Road towards Ball Green. On the higher ground to the right ...
Canal lift bridge, Ivy House Road, Hanley
This lift or draw bridge (number 11) carries Ivy House Road over the Caldon Canal. Over the bridge to the left, and alongside the canal, was J & G Meakin's Eagle Pottery. Demolished in 2005, the land ...
Burnwood Schools, Chell
The photograph shows Burnwood Secondary, Junior and Nursery Schools. the photograph was taken from Chell heath Road. The houses on the left are on Salkeld Place.
Fegg Hayes Road and Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east along Fegg Hayes Road towards Chatterley Whitfield Colliery. Oxford Road is at the end. Fegg Hayes Road was originally called North Parade. On the right edge is the entrance to the Lear ...
Burnwood Nursery, Infants and Junior School, Chell Heath
Burnwood Nursery, Infants and Junior School was on the corner of Bishop Road and Chell Heath Road. The school has been demolished and replaced by Stoke on Trent North Children's Centre. Burnwood County ...
Bethesda Schoolrooms, Hanley
The photograph shows the western end of Alexander House, the former Methodist Sunday School of the neighbouring Bethesda Chapel. The gable end has a tablet in the pediment "Bethesda School, erected MDCCCXIX ...
Bethesda New Connexion Methodist Chapel, Albion Street, Hanley
Bethesda Chapel is an example of a large 19th-century town chapel. The building, which dates largely from 1819, was constructed by newly emerging the Methodist New Connexion on the site of an earlier ...
Bethesda New Connexion Chapel, Albion Street, Hanley
This building dates from 1819 and the frontage from 1859. The land upon which Bethesda stands was first purchased in 1791, as a direct response to the emergence of the New Connexion and the need to make ...
Hanley Town Hall
This view from Pall Mall into Albion Street and Albion Square is dominated by Hanley Town Hall. Bagnall Street runs off to the right alongside the hall leading to the adjoining Victoria Hall. The Hanley ...
Werburgh Drive, Trentham
The view west along Werburgh Drive from New Inn Lane. the photograph was taken not after the estate of houses was developed in the 1960s. This are was open space until the 1950s and the Trentham Park ...
The stables, Trentham Hall
Trentham Hall stables yard off Park Drive.
Staffordshire Water Board Offices, Albion Street, Hanley
The building with the flag pole was the Staffordshire Potteries Water Board offices at 37 Albion Street and the neighbouring building on the corner of Bethesda Street and Albion Street was originally ...
The demolition of Hanley High School.
Hanley Higher Grade School was opened in 1893, renamed Hanley Municipal Secondary School in 1905 becoming Hanley High School in 1924. the school became a "boys only grammar school" in 1938 when the girls ...